The Day of the Dead's Beauty: Art

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Day of the Dead’s beauty
It is hard to of the Day of the dead celebration without recalling all of the art that is linked with this holiday. Day of the dead art can take many form of folk art for instance: sugar skulls and other candies are hand-crafted with colorful designs, Masks, toys, puppets, paintings, papel picado adorn with beautiful scene, ofrendas are also considered art as they are arrange as artistically as possible, performances of theater and dance, colorful day of the dead decorations etc. “Day of the dead art is alive with smiling skulls in kaleidoscope colors, doused in a deluge of decorative and detailed designs”. Ironically this type of artwork is often colorful and lively, and does not portray the dead as something people should be scared of. Many, who didn’t grow up in a Latin America culture, do not know that the day of the dead art rejuvenates our opinion of death by presenting us with a view of an afterlife that is full of energy and life, an afterlife that is not at all scary, but one worthy of a joyous celebration. It brings with it the hope that once we pass away there will still be another tomorrow. This colorful expression of art mocks death in a playful way, though some might say that mocking the dead is disrespectful it isn’t, in mocking the dead with Calacas and Calaveras, we accept it and honor it, instead of fearing it. Craftwork of skulls and skeletons are commonly seen in ofrendas and ground street festivals.

Skulls
The biggest cultural key symbol for Day of the Dead is the calavera. Calaveras reminds us that death is real, it is part of the circle of life, and it’s a point we will all have to reach. We will all eventually end up looking like a calavera after we pass away, merely bones. The ...

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...ns. He portrayed and illustrated the Politian’s and the contributors to the social and political problems that where taking place all throughout Mexico, as calaveras. In his posters, priests, politicians, farmers and street sweepers all shared the same destiny, death. When dead they will all end up being equal; money and power will not help then maneuver their way around things anymore. For one the rich and poor will be equal and same, an idea that during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz was highly attractive. His drawing of “La Catrina” show cast exactly that; that even the rich die. Posadas drawing of skeletons all became attached to the dead of the dead celebration because as his drawing portrayed the dead in everyday lives something that is portrayed in the calacas and esenasas of Day of the Dead.
One of his famous poems was that of The Calavera Oaxaquena

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